Dixie Bigfoot

Man, you turn your back on the Internets for one measly little week, and the ol' GA Bigfoot thing dies with a whimper, huh? Bigfoot On Ice, of course has kept up on all the news, and that news is sadly (but not entirely unpredictably) that the whole thing is one big ol' hoax.

Furthermore, it seems that the DNA results are bullshit as well. According to this Discovery News post, a University of Minnesota scientist has determined that the DNA from the samples represent two sources: one sample was human, and one sample was from an opossum. Of course, I suspect that Tom Biscardi and his bi-coastal curious lawyers will remain undaunted by the facts, and press on with the whole sham.

Now, the fact that Tom Biscardi (AND his bi-coastal lawyers) is associated with a Hoax is nothing surprising; he's kinda famous for being a, how do you say, money-grubbing shyster asshole. What IS surprising, of course, is how the cryptozoology community payed any attention to this sideshow nonsense. If folks with a history of playing fast and loose with the truth starts shooting their mouth off about their dead, frozen bigfoot, your natural skeptic-o-meter (located in the hypothalamus) should start buzzing.

Hopefully, the cryptozoological community will FINALLY learn the lesson of these silly little episodes: until the evidence is made public, all anybody ever has is a story.